Over the years, I’ve occasionally thought about that incident and wondered if I did the right thing.
Annie Lane advises today's reader to stop feeling guilty about going to an event without a friend who was running late and how she, hopefully, learned a valuable lesson from the experience.
Sometimes she would get a call from a neighbor to babysit at the last minute and she wouldn’t show up at my house at all. I told her I didn’t mind if she canceled for that reason, but just call and tell me so I know. My husband said I could have offered to let Joanne and Katie go together, something that didn’t even cross my mind at the time. Anyway, what would you have done in that situation? -- Two Tickets, Three FriendsYou did the right thing. Please let yourself off the hook for something that occurred over 20 years ago. I disagree with your husband. I’m not really sure why he would make you second-guess yourself over something that happened so long ago.
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